With every kiss your breath and mine combine —
With every finger-stroke I feel your soul
Intermingle and come in touch with mine —
We are two halves…

Shall I compare you with another, dear,
As you are now to warm my heart — no sun
Would shine on me, all rain would be my tear-
Drops flooding…

My love for you’s a set of blooming fields,
All fenced off with an ever-folding fence —
And interest in their growing detail yields
An attraction that tightly bonds…

I didn't misunderstand you at all. You have almost completely miunderstood my response if that's what you got from it.

And no, it's not a paradox. You can find a great deal by me on paradoxes on Medium. I know what paradoxes are and I know what contradictions are. You have stated a contradiction. Nothing can have value by not having value.

Bascially, you buy into the Romantic ideas on art. Yes, they are recent, and that matters a great deal. Kant was responding to art that had completely divorced itself from its roots in religion. There was an attempt…

ART

Welcome! I’m so glad I am able to talk to you today about one of the most important things in the world: art. If you don’t think art is important, ask yourself how much time you spend listening to and telling stories, listening to music, playing songs, and enjoying movies. More likely than not, the answer is that you spend most of your day doing these things. If we spend so much time on the arts, then it must be important!

So, each of you is doing something very important: you are contributing to making the world a more…

The sun breaks on the Texas fields
For the first time for me when I
See you every day. A cavern-
Like darkness descends, a dreary
World of shadows, chains…

Could I give up the magic I have earned,
The power over spirits I have fought
To gain? To see the spells I love be spurned
By me and never…

I could not ever say I hate my life
For if I were to say I hate today
I’d thus reject my children and my wife —
And I could never have…